It’s not been a bad first year for OTOR…after an FIM prize and steadily growing readership the figures bizarrely spiked with the Stoner-covered issue seventeen meaning that we’re nearing half a million readers for 2011…
Tony Cairoli between 350 and 450cc for ’12
The World Champion sent a quick email to let us know that he is back on a bike for the first time since his wrist break at the Motocross of Nations and could se swayed by KTM’s new 450SX-F for the 2012 campaign…
David Philippaerts chats pain, operations, metalwork and comebacks
At the end of July factory Yamaha MX1 racer David Philippaerts suffered a horrific training crash in Germany that left both wrists facing the wrong way. After three operations and a boatload of metalwork the 2008 world champion is getting back on track…
Casey Stoner portrait…
Matt Roberts and Gavin Emmett can claim to know the MotoGP champion as well as anyone so naturally they were the first ports of call for an insight into what the Australian is really like and an assessment of what he has achieved. Of course there are some words from Casey there too…
Working the MotoGP press…
There is a whole other side of being a MotoGP racer than simply cracking a throttle and shifting in a saddle. Off the bike there is a raft of duties that mean a race team needs extra staff to satisfy demands for rider’s time…here is a look at that responsibility
Valencia draws racing season to a close
There will be plenty to lament this weekend at the MotoGP finale in Spain. For obvious reasons many thoughts will be with ‘58’, but Valencia will also mark the last Grand Prix for Loris Capirossi and at least two riders will see their championship dreams evaporate…
2012 Motocross Grand Prix calendar revised
As expected the FIM Motocross World Championship for 2012 has undergone a few retouches and while the series keeps at sixteen rounds the biggest changes are to scheduling and the status of a couple of events…